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It’s National Novel Writer’s Month!

It’s National Novel Writer’s Month, and I decided to completely scrap everything I had written in my book so far and start over from scratch – because, well, I had really just transcribed the journal pages I had from program, and then when I couldn’t find any more, I was stuck. For months. It just made more sense to start the entire thing over going from memory, especially now that I’m out of…

Writer’s Software: To Use or Not to Use

It is my biggest dream in life, right now, to finish and publish my memoir. I wrote the draft several years ago and have worked on it off and on since. I have found it difficult to keep up with what I’ve written and what I haven’t written as well as in finding a particular section–quickly–while using Word and/or Google Docs. Both programs are easy to navigate and certainly great to use as a…

Every year, we’re lucky to have great sponsors for our nonprofit events. FastPencil, a NaNoWriMo 2015 sponsor, is offering all participants a hard copy of their book for the cost of shipping, and free e-publishing. Read on for more details:

Microsoft Word, an iPad, your journal, an app: regardless of where you write, you have been focused on your writing goals all November. And that's an accomplishment in itself! As we move toward closing out this month’s 50,000-word writing challenge, let’s turn towards the next step of the book creation process: preparing your manuscript for publishing. 

Although your ultimate goal may or may not be to publish your novel globally, we know that printing your manuscript and publishing a book are two very different projects. That’s why FastPencil is offering a place where you can do both—print and publish your projects—as desired.

Step 1. Compile and Organize

Talk to Me - What did Maddie See? @fastpencil

Talk to Me, by Sonia Ellis/illus. by Evanleigh Davis (2014, FastPencil) $16.99, ISBN: 9781619338821

Recommended for ages 9-14

Seven year-old Maddie Reyes is a selective mute. She can talk up a storm around her mom, dad, and older sister, Sadina. She tells all of her secrets to Bella, her robotic cat. But get her outside of her family circle, and she cannot speak. Sadina, her older sister,…

So, I've decided to put my work on the book-writing community online fastpencil.com for everyone to check out! If you don't have an account with them, don't worry, I'll put snippets up on here, my Facebook page and my Twitter account :)

Later!